Upcoming Concert
Music on Paintings
- L'Asie d'aprés Tiepolo by Hugues Dufourt
- Rothko Chapel by Morton Feldman
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 8:00 PM
The Chapel in the Good Shepherd Center
For its season finale, Seattle Modern Orchestra will present two pieces where the ideas and emotions unique to the visual arts are transformed into music. Themed Music on Paintings, this concert features two works of contemporary music for ensemble inspired by strikingly divergent paintings. To start the program, French composer Hugues Dufourt's L'Asie d'aprés Tiepolo (2009) reflects on Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Allegory of the Planets and Continents (1752), while the second half features the celebrated Rothko Chapel (1971) by American composer Morton Feldman.
Tickets are $20 at the door (cash and check only), $18 online, $10 for students and seniors.
Announcing... a Matching Gift Challenge!
Several members of our community have just stepped forward to issue a matching gift challenge to support Seattle Modern Orchestra's work. They will match every dollar raised up to $3,000 - and donations will be put to use immediately toward our current season.
Here's how it works:
- You give $10, $20 goes to SMO.
- You give $25, SMO gets $25 x 2.
- You give $50, $100, $250... it's worth $100, $200, even $500 to SMO.
It costs about $6,000 to present one of our concerts. Your donation - whatever its size - will be put to use immediately toward our current season. Together, we can make sure that contemporary music concerts like this one continue to happen. That music licensing fees are covered. That scores can be rented. That musicians get paid.
Please consider giving what you can, as soon as you can. You can give securely online here.
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